Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork Polyphonic Pitch Shift Pedal Reviews

This is the one you want. Others are junk. This is the one here. Buy this one. Seriously can't stress it enough. Don't cheap out you will be disappointed. This one actually works. You can play full chords without it turning to mud.

Our band plays a lot SRV, Jimi, G N' R, as well songs by other groups that tune 1/2 step down. Before purchasing the Pitch Fork pedal, we were constantly switching instruments to accommodate our vocalist. However, now that the guitarist and I (bassist) both have the Pitch Fork, we simply turn our pedals on and play the songs. Life just got a whole lot simpler for our band. So, if your band is encountering the same situation as ours did, this pedal is definitely for you.

As an FYI, I've tried the Pitch Fork in several different positions and it's always in perfect pitch.

I use it to get the right pitch for my voice. I like to play a lot in open chord positions, and with the Pitch Fork I can get right into my comfort zone.

Many hours of inspiration

Works great and does some really cool things. Note though that if you're looking to simply step down 1 semi-tone with each click of the shift knob you'll be better with something like the DigiTech Drop. Here's each setting on the shift knob (other than the first 'detune' setting):

minor second - 1 semitone (ie: half step, one fret, Eb, etc)
major second - 2
major third - 4
perfect fourth - 5
perfect fifth - 7
major 6th - 9
minor 7th - 10

...so if you're looking to drop a standard guitar 3 semitones to get it to C#/Db, you'll be out of luck. This is a more "musical" pedal and does really cool things but it's not intended to simply drop 1 semitone with each click like the DigiTech Drop type of thing.

I prefer this to my Whammy. Much smaller and board friendly. The blend knob is really nice and useful, as is the option to have both a higher and lower harmony at once -- the Whammy has neither of these features. I don't really care for those Tom Morello-y extreme pitch dives and jumps, so the lack of a treadle is no problem, but you can attach an expression pedal if you want. I mostly use it for the lower octave, either blended in for a heavy, menacing tone, or all the way wet for a faux-bass. Great buy, will live long on my board.

I got one at first to try out and loved it so I bought another one. Sweetwater has the best customer service hands down. I have one pedal set up kinda like a funky chorus in a way and another one just for wild dueling effects for other songs and experimental. We play in a 3 piece band. Drummer, myself on guitar and DJ buddy for effects.

Great Pitch Shift pedal with various options. I've owned the POG and figured I try this one since it has additional options.
Only con would be a Tone knob since the highs can get a little harsh when the Mix is set high.
Regardless, great pedal and with a small expression pedal, you can use it as a Whammy.

jd.vine composer working on new sound track,wish i had one sooner,a great tool for digi recording

My latest acquisition, the Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork is really great. Going to be able to do exactly what I need to do with this pedal. Tone is great, no signal loss...I'm a very happy guy! Thank you Dan Wagoner for your help with this! Top notch service!!

Very cool! Had a blast with it. Would be useful for various things As always thanks to Randy Akins & Sweetwater for great service.

Are you tired of your other guitarist playing harmonies offbeat? Do you find the process of drop tuning to be a hassle? Are you sick of other harmony and pitch shifting pedals stifling your creativity by boxing you into the confines of a certain key, only to tell you just one note at a time please, no chords allowed? Do you like to be a sculptor of sound and be in full control of the rate, time, and level you like to have your effects blossom into beautiful musical fusion? Don't you wish you could have a pedal that has limitless possibilities, uses, is a collage of inspirational and imaginative tones, plays well with all your other pedals on your board, is compact and can fit anywhere, and is the easiest thing to understand and use next to the invention of Velcro laced shoes!!!??? If you've answered yes to any of these questions, but let's face it you said yes to all of them, then look no further the Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork is the pedal for you!!!

After months of very carefully weighing pros and cons and comparing and contrasting different brands and models of harmony and pitch shift pedals I finally settled on the Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork. My decision all boiled down to versatility, originality, simplicity, and was reasonably priced. Sure it sounds unheard of and too good to be true, but after getting this pedal I now believe that anything's possible.

Reasons why I love this pedal and cool uses I found for it!!!
1. The pitch range that this pedal has is amazing, and with the blend control you get the ultimate say in how loud or subtle you want the effect to be. If you want it to add a light shimmery flare to the tips of whatever you're playing, no problem, or maybe you just want to crank it and get some sweet out of this world tones that would even make E.T. blush, it's on it!!!

2. It's three guitars in one! When trying to teach someone my ideas for a really cool harmonizing lick, bridge, or interlude I always run into the problem of it taking forever if at all for the other person to play in the right tempo. So instead of creating my vision for an epic Iron Maiden sounding harmony part, I'm stuck with me playing followed by a sort of off pitch delay. Not anymore though. Shoot this pedal did me one better and with it's flawless tracking system not only gave me perfect timing and accompaniment with one other guitar, but two other guitars. It's like looking in a mirror of pitch differentiating sound, always copying your every move doing exactly what you do when you do it, but it still has a voice of it's own. I thought I could shake it from being in perfect sink with me by trying to do some crazy fast tapping and sweep picking stuff, but nope it stuck to me more than my tattoos. It's awesome.

3. I never really experimented too much with drop tuning my guitars before. I usually stick with regular standard tuning, or when I got a hankering for some Ol School Mississippi Delta Blues I'll tune to open D, or G. I don't do it for the reason that I can't, it's just, I'm lazy and would rather be spending my time playing instead of eating up my limited practicing time by fiddling around with the tuning pegs to play one three minute song in drop B. Not anymore though, by turning the Blend control all the way to the right and flipping the switch either up or down the Pitch Fork's extensive and colorful pitch selections transform my guitar's tuning like a magical invisible capo. So next time your bass player decides to dip out on your recording session don't worry the Pitch Fork's got your back and can transform your 6 string queen, into a funky fresh bass.

4. It's non-constricting to a specific key, simple, you can add an expression pedal, latch button feature, organ generator feel, and polyphonic!!! When narrowing down my extensive wishlist of harmony and pitch shift pedals I was down to the Pitch Fork, the Boss PS-6 Harmonist, and the TC Electronic Quintessence, all three still really awesome pedals and I still do want to eventually acquire them all, but i was drawn to the Pitch Fork for it's simplicity with it's easy to use controls and the pitches are based on intervals instead of different keys like the TC Electronic, and the Boss. Sure there's definitely benefits to selecting a certain key for the voicing, but I just find it easier with Pitch Fork's interval method of voicing. I really like the fact that you can add an expression pedal to it as well with using the latch button to control the effect in real time, it kind of turns the on/off switch Pitch Fork into the Slammi, or Slammi Plus. I prefer the option to do the expression pedal or not, because then you got the option to fit it on a smaller pedal board and conserve room on your board by not having a bulky Wah size pedal if you just want the straight effect, or if you wanna be an effect pedal control freak move on down to the big boy pedal board and dial in those soothing pitches with ease. It kind of reminds me of the sound version a light switch that can transform to a simple On/Off to a dimmer switch. Also if you don't have an expression pedal and turn the latch button on as long as you hold down the button you get the effect, but lift up your foot and it stops, try playing a chord progression and tapping the tempo on the pedal on the button, it sounds pretty cool. I was really driven the the Pitch Fork's overall organ-like tone as well. It reminds me of The Black Keys sound when it's all alone, but if I wanna play some Hendrix like stuff I'll throw on my Big Muff in front of it and my sound takes a trip in a time machine back to the 60's and 70's to hang out with it's ancestors of rock!!! And unlike some harmony and pitch shifter pedals the Pitch Fork is Polyphonic!!! So obviously it works with chords too. Perfect for intricate scale runs ending on a single root note chord to add a final punch to a sick solo as well as some enunciated girth to your song.
-Note- I still do have to get the Boss and the TC Electronic pedals though too. I really liked the Boss's super Bend Function that can go up to 4 octaves and gives you kind of an outer space, alien type sound, and I've never had a Boss pedal that I didn't like so I'm not gonna be disappointed with it. The TC electronic pedal's pretty sweet too, it's got a plethora of options for different scale harmonies with their cool Tone Print Feature, and you can even customize and create your own tone print as well, you can switch it between buffered and true bypass, you can organize the voicing by key and mode/scale and even customize your own scale interval voicing to it giving you even more options. It's got the same latch button feature as the Pitch Fork, but instead of you being able to hook it up to an expression pedal you just apply pressure on the button until you arrive at the pitch you want. So it's pretty much the same thing and it'll conserve space on your pedal board, but I just can't see it being as comfortable to use compared to the rocking motion of an expression pedal.

5. Affordable and great quality and plays well with others!!! Sure in the world of harmony and pitch shift pedals they all got their own unique bells and whistles, some more than others, some with must have tones, some with more complex and expensive circuitry and with all this they could get kind of expensive. Luckily for all of us shredders, country twangers, psychedelic sound genius', punk rockers, buskers, metal heads, buskers, musical poets, Ska enthousists, death metal angels, and musicians and music lovers everywhere, the good people at Electro-Harmonix made this revolutionary music engineered device affordable to musicians on all walks of life, genre category, cultural backgrounds, and skill level helping them acquire another weapon for their musical fusion arsenal. I decided to treat myself and get another type of pedal I don't have. I decided to go with the MXR Analog Chorus Pedal. I've never had an MXR pedal, or even a chorus pedal, but I can honestly say it's was pretty darn cool!!! In my signal chain I prefered the sound of running these two pedals in my effects loop of my amp in the order of the MXR first and then the Pitch Fork. They both compliment each others sounds really well, and if I wanna go for a Nirvana meets The Black Keys sound I'll throw on the Boss DS-1 before them both to slap some dirt in the mix. Following the Pitch Fork in my signal chain though I then have the Ernie Ball Ambient Delay pedal, then followed by the Boss RV-6 reverb pedal, because every effects loop needs a touch of delay and splash of reverb. First I thought with all of those different time, modulation, and distortion effects all going at once I thought it would sound really muddy and just like a mash of weird sounds, but boy was I wrong. Sure that's quite a bit of effects thrown into one giant pot of sound gumbo, but you can pick out each distinct sound perfectly as they complemented and helped each other's distinct qualities shine. So this didn't turn into sound mud, but instead all these sound toppings turned into a delicious angel choir sounding pizza!!!

6. Ear Training, and idea generator!!! I teach guitar lessons and one day one of my students asked how he can improve his ear training ability, and my only response was, The Pitch Fork. To do this I started by having him hit a random note on the fret board, all while the blend knob was turned all the way down on the Pitch Fork, so just the dry signal went through. He struck the 5th fret on the low E string, A. He knew he hit the A note, so he knows his pitch's starting point, without telling him what I had the shift knob set to, which was a perfect 5th by the way which would make it an E note and I had the switch turned up so he'd just be hearing one new pitch, I turned the blend knob all the way to the right and told him to hit the same note again. Then just the E note rang out. So with enough practice at this he'll be able to train his ear to recognize different interval distances from a certain starting point, opening his ears to all sorts of new ways to create and identify scale combinations and patterns and obtain a better musical ear to help him learn songs by ear!!!

All and all after this incredibly long winded review please take my advice and try out the Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork, I can assure you that you won't be disappointed!!! And what better place to try it out then the magical, extraordinary, Disney Land for Gear Heads, and Garden of Eden for Sound: Sweetwater Sound!!!

Love the pitch fork, makes my musical life much easier

This little compact Flanger Pedal is the bomb ! Does everything I need a Flanger to do...
I Love It... Controls are simple and that's the way I like it...Thanks again to Sweetwater
and Ben Robinson for getting this pedal out to me as quick as Possible.

1. compact
2. clickless button
3. excellent tracking
4. polyphonic (works on multiple notes as well as single ones).
5. the latch mode is the best ption ever, I even wonder why would someone need to buy a dedicated expression pedal for it while the latch mode perfectly does the job.
6. the dual option gives you great sounds.

in brief, this is the best pitch shitfing pedal I have ever stepped on.

I received this pedal today, and it's surpassed my expectations. Really nice. I would definitely recommend it if you are looking for a POG-like pedal. The latch function is very cool, and I really dig the detune. Overall, really nice pedal!

An excellent professional piece of gear for studio and touring work
Solid repeatable sound tool well done by Eletroharmonic in Ny

Wish I had this years ago. Extremely easy to use, AWESOME range!! You will not be disappointed! Incredibly versatile. Money well spent.

Just plugged this baby in and wow! Turns your 6 string into a 12 or 18 string with the flick of a knob. Want to dive down into baritone territory? This box will take you there! How low can you go? All the way down to turn your 6 string guitar into a bass. I haven't even begun to play with the expression pedal but right out of the box it is a hit. You can't go wrong at this price point. If your looking for a straight up pedal that will cut through the mix and add a nice usable dimension to your sound you have found the PERFECT PITCH!

You also can't go wrong with any purchase at Sweetwater! Their service is really that good. I'm sure that after reading so many raves about Sweetwater people may wonder if they are lacing their candy with some sort of mind control substances but NOOOOOO! They just do customer service right and in this age of wham bam-thank you mam sales it just stands head and shoulders above the pack!

Special shout out to my sales rep, Mike Picotte! Thanks Mike!

I just got this thing last week. It was either it or a Digitech Ricochet or a TC Sub-N-Up but I couldn't be more ecstatic about this purchase. I wanted some more atmospheric, moody tones for my bass guitar and the minute I plugged it in I was floored. It's changed the way I play. My bass has big dual humbucker active pickups and this picks up every bit of the signal and tracks awesome. Once I dialed it in, it sounds like I'm playing straight up guitar power chords but dropped into the netherworld. When I kick my fuzz or overdrive it literally sounds like the biggest, nastiest, ugliest toughest thing I've ever heard. I love, love it. I'd tell you the specifics of my rig but I'm afraid you'd want to steal my sound once you hear it so don't even think about it.

I wanted a pedal to be able to change keys without using a capo or transposing, and also to play harmonized solos. This pedal does both very well. Very easy and intuitive to use at a reasonable price.

Got one for my son and one for myself. Things are awesome. Endless options. Pitch Fork comes with it's own power supply but does not work with Dunlop Wha or a One Spot power supply in line to other pedals. Works fine with a Morley volume/wha and separate power supply's to each pedal.

The Pitch Fork is a blast! I get lost in this pedal every time I plug in my guitar. Lots of fine tunability for chunky, textural, and weird tones. My previous octave pedal seems so limited compared to the range and flexibility of this beast. So much packed in such a small package. My friend played through it and fell in love immediately. I can't wait to plug in an expression pedal. Many thanks to EH for creating such a fine product!

Thank you EHX.It used to take an AMS or a Publison to get pitch shifting this smooth.

I've been playing guitar for close to four years and always had to tune a guitar down if I wanted to play a different song. Since I started getting into performing life, I knew I would have to tune to different settings and I was fortunate enough to get the pitchfork for Christmas. Though I'm still learning the settings, I love how it sounds and found a few settings I plan to use in the future!!!

After using this pedal for a week, I am impressed at how much use I have already gotten out of it. I play with a worship team at church and sometimes the leader wants a song in a different key than the audio files I have. The pedal enables me to shift the pitch to match the audio so I can figure out what I am going to play exactly as I will play it and not have to spend too much time thinking about transposition. Practicing has gotten much simpler and fun!
With the blend control, pitch shift selections, latch, pitch up, down, or dual mode this pedal has a lot to offer for the ways it can be used.
The pedal seems to track well enough for my use, and the tone coming from the pitch shift is still good. Some of the sounds can get a little silly depending on how far you are shifting but probably have a use in the right setting. I definitely want to hook an expression pedal up to it some day.

I'm all about options and different sounds coming out of one pedal. This one gives you just that. You can blend a low octave with your original or processed signal to give you a thicker guitar sound, go 100% on the lower octave to sound like a bass or go with 50-50 blend for solos. You can even have more fun with this when combining it with a looper pedal. Great for your own sound, great for jamming out with friends. I really dig this little pedal!

I now own three of these things. One for my bass pedalboard, one for a compact "acoustic gig" bass pedalboard, and one for my guitar rig.

I personally think this is the best octave pedal ever built (so far). It's actually polyphonic; it tracks really well, even on bass; and the textures and tones you can coax out of this thing are amazing. If you only used it as an octaver, it'd still be well worth the price.

But: it's not just an octave pedal! Use your harmonic creativity to explore all the possibilities! The extended functionality makes this so much more valuable. EHX is, again, out in front of the pack.

IMHO, if you hook up an expression pedal, this can compete seriously against the DT Whammy line. YMMV.

Small caveat: since I own three of these, I notice that each behaves a little differently. But they all do what I want them to do, when I compensate for the differences.

I play solo most the time and now I have instant bass , new sounds at my finger tips. In conjunction with a looper pedal my one man show just took a great leap forward. Try putting a fretless bass an the #2 up position and you have the coolest slide sound. This thing is like a Marco Polo spice discovery. Kudos to the folks at E-H. And Sweetwaters wonderful shopping experience.

I had an extra spot available on my board and was wanting to try some kind of octave pedal. After looking at the micro POG, I came across the Pitch Fork and it seemed like the better option. No individual control for sub octave and high octave, but there are plenty more options to make up for that!

I found the m2, M2, M3, etc. settings (pretty much anything besides the octaves) are really only useful to me when the blend knob is cranked all the way up (no dry signal). There is a tad bit of latency when doing this and the guitar tone changes a little, but I find the m2 in the down setting with the blend knob all the way up is a great alternative to tuning your guitar to all flats for songs with open chords in Eb major, F# major, or B major (that way you can play in E, G, or C, respectively).

The latch switch is cool with the blend all the way up as well...you can pretty much just have the pedal jump an octave or drop an octave momentarily during a solo or something. I haven't used the expression pedal function yet, but I'll try it out soon.

I think I will primarily use this pedal on the single octave setting, either up, down, or both, to fatten lead lines, or to use for guitar swells (plus delay and reverb).

Overall, it's a very versatile pedal with great tracking, a great price, and a fun pedal to use in many applications!

This is a great all-around pitch-shifting pedal that competes closely with the EHX MicroPog. It has a smaller footprint and some additional features. Some say that the EHX MicroPog has a slightly more pleasing sound than the Pitch Fork, but the difference isn't noticeable enough for my uses.

The Pitch Fork has a momentary glissando feature that allows the user to glide up/down to the harmonized note that has been chosen.

I waited for this pedal for a long time from another excellent vendor, then realized after a month or so that Sweetwater had them in stock. This is the kind of pedal you really know you got your money's worth out of. The 33 settings, coupled with the blend knob allow you to get virtually anywhere you want to. Plus power supply (always nice to get with any pedal purchase). When using it with other pedals, multiply the possibilities again by all of the settings. It also makes one think about the fretboard all over again in new ways. The latch setting actually makes the foot-switch act like an simple expression pedal - nice! (didn't expect that at all). I put it in the FX loop next to a final noise kill pedal to round out an entire 14-pedal setup - great~! It is a pedal that will expand my playing and give me that 'other gear' many of us have always hoped to find. EH has done it again. Thank you for the awesome foot candy Sweetwater~!

Seeking some unique other worldly sounds? I did like they suggested and put a Nano Big Muff in front, and wouldn't you just know the tones coming out of the Mesa were mind blowing. On the clean Channel I could feel the front end of the amp sweating, just dripping with rich lush harmonics. The dynamics in this little pedal will put your speaker(s) to the task. Plugged in the expression pedal and it was mind blowing. Added the Wha and got lost in the richest, thickest , sonic gumbo. If invention is you're thing this is a useful powerful tool. Easy to operate, nice small footprint. It's a keeper.

Thank you EHX for making this wonderful little yet powerful pedal.
I have put electric guitar and vocals through it.
It tracks very very well, and the harmonies sound great!
Cheers.

Here is the deal. I was thinking about different ideas for a solo project I might record. I wanted an effect to expand my creativity. This pedal is like dropping acid. It will take you to places musically that you would think did not exist. It will open your mind to levels that are endless. I LOVE IT>

I play a 4-string tenor guitar tuned CGBD. It's a great instrument but I've always wanted to get a deeper sound from it on occasion, which is tough to do without the two additional bass strings that a standard 6-string has. The Pitch Fork pedal does a very good of dropping the pitch one whole octave, which neatly solves that problem. And the Blend knob allows you to adjust the mix of your original sound with the new digital dropped pitch. In my opinion, a little bit of the dropped pitch goes a long way, and setting the Blend knob at about 9 o'clock seemed the best arrangement for me. The pedal also handles chords as well as single notes, which is important to me since I play chord melody leads.

That one setting was worth the price of the entire pedal for me; I doubt that I'll need or use any of the other harmony settings for solo play. But when I'm comping a singer, the pedal will also come in very handy, since I'll be able to continue playing in the same key from the lead sheet -- but with the pedal I'll be able to raise or lower the pitch (the key) of the song as much as up or down one octave by either a third, a fourth, a fifth, a seventh or a ninth, in order to accommodate a singer's vocal range. Although I can usually transpose on the fly if the jump isn't too great, the pedal now makes it easy to do that without frying my brain. That's awesome!

The Pitch Fork pedal is easy and uncomplicated to use, with a minimum of bells and whistles; it also appears to be sturdy and well made. However, I can't say the same for the AC adapter, which has the thinnest, cheesiest AC power cord I've ever seen. I do appreciate Electro-Harmonix providing an AC adapter with the pedal, but for the $ price, I think they could have spent another buck or two and gone with a thicker, more roadworthy cord. Because I seriously doubt this cord is going to hold up for numerous gigs, I dinged half a star off of what would otherwise have been a 5-star review. And if you already own a decent AC adapter that's compatible with the pedal, just use that instead and then no worries!

I've been looking for a simple octave pedal for a very long tone but most out there have added effects I didn't need. The Pitch Fork seemed to fit the bill both on paper and in the demo video. I'm not a huge fan of EHX simply because they make battery use a problem but I was willing to give it a try. Wow. I'm glad I did. This does everything they claim and more. It's also small on my board, which helps and came with its own power supply which I highly recommend you use. I had it in a chain and operation wasn't right. I imagine s battery would also do the job but I'm just not hot on 4 screws to change them out. That's why it only got four and a half stars from me. A redesign of the battery compartment would give it the full five.

This pedal creates some of the gnarliest sounds you could make. Can make you sound like you're playing 3 guitars at the same time.

Decent price point. Tracks nicely. Latch toggle, good for solo moments. Detune/chorus, a nice bonus.

Easily the cleanest pitch shifter I have found. Naturally there is coloration to the shifted signals, but no warbling or out of tune harmonics at all which is more important, to me at least. Perfect tracking. I do wish the detune effect was editable without the expression pedal plugged in, but it's pretty hard to find any other fault with it. If you don't need a true harmonizer, this is the best you can get for the money.

This pitch shifter will not only inspire you, it will make you do great things. If you are considering a Boss PS6...dont. This pedal not only blows the Boss away, it far supercedes it I.bought a Boss and returned that glitchy shniz. This pedal tracks asesomely. Just buy it!

For the price this pedal is fantastic. The momentary switch makes it incredibly easy to harmonize specific areas or runs in a longer passage. as the only guitarist in my band, it's been wonderful to fatten up riffs and fill out certain areas.

Love it! - Just need to control my use of it now. (easy on the Blend) :) Love the silent on/off & Latch feature of the switch. “Dual” mode is quite versatile for you may not always want both Up & Down. Bought an expression pedal to aid in “playing” with it. Small footprint & the sounds are highly usable (except for the 3up – though your dog may love it) Love what all EH is doing of late.

I've owned this and used it for a couple years now. Gigged a lot but only used for 2 songs. Started getting quieter and cutting out. Good pedal until then. Gonna open it and look for loose connections. I'd buy again if I can't fix it. These things are expensive for what I use it for.

Tracking is good. The mix knob works great. Full chords are no problem. Lots of possibilities. You loose a little bit of punch when you engage it - I wish it had a level control to add a little gain.

I'm a bassist and was looking for a something to remove the need for alternate tunings. I previously had a DigiTech Drop pedal on my board but removed it because it generated a "choursy" detuned sound. Although I do feel this is much better sounding than the DigiTech, I still heard that "chours" effect throughout my signal chain.

To be fair, I haven't had much luck with any pitch shift pedal any my basses and tend to use my Simple Pitch on the Helix as it seems to have a more consistent and clearer tone.

On a guitar, this pedal sounds amazing.

This is a very interesting pedal. Gets upper and lower octaves for a Prince style sound or a deep bass guitar sound - doubled with a slight synth tone. Other intervals make for some cool chords than make for some creative composing and stimulate ideas...was trying this out to see if it would emulate a baritone and it gets close but might still get the actual instrument... still this is fun in the meantime

This pedal is pretty good at generating harmonies and octaves. It's a little noisey but all of them that I've heard are.

Just like the title says. There's no issues tracking notes whatsoever, but there is a noticeable amount of latency if you play fast. Also you should understand that the pitch shifting does not sound totally natural - it sounds a bit synthetic and this happens more as you shift the pitch further. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you keep a guitar in drop D and use this pedal to drop you down a few extra steps, it won't sound quite the same as a guitar that is actually tuned to drop C or B. For that purpose, it sounds more like in a movie when someone gets tranquilized and talks in a slow motion and in a deeper pitch.

It's definitely useful, but it does color the sound on top of just shifting the pitch.

Great pedal. Not only does all the octaves. It has chorus type sounding effects also. Has a bottom to make it a latching style foot switch. Or the option to just press button and hold for smaller parts of song. Than just lift foot off to disengage effect. Only thing for me personally that I corrected was it's a smaller height profile of a pedal. If it's a large pedal board with multiple rows of pedals. It's sorta hart to get to foot switch button. I corrected it with a barefoot button plate to make it easier to hit on the fly. Sweet water sells those buttons also. Some people with one row pedal board this won't effect. Great sounding pedal.

Great pedal. Not only does all the octaves. It has chorus type sounding effects also. Has a bottom to make it a latching style foot switch. Or the option to just press button and hold for smaller parts of song. Than just lift foot off to disengage effect. Only thing for me personally that I corrected was it's a smaller height profile of a pedal. If it's a large pedal board with multiple rows of pedals. It's sorta hart to get to foot switch button. I corrected it with a barefoot button plate to make it easier to hit on the fly. Sweet water sells those buttons also. Some people with one row pedal board this won't effect. Great sounding pedal.

By far, the best quality sounding octave/pitch pedal I’ve tried (and I’ve had a few). Flawless tracking. It can be a bit harsh at high mix setting, but that’s the case with any pitch shifter. For not-overbearing texture, mix worked great at 9 o’clock.
I play in a worship band, and used this on three songs this Sunday. I found myself bending down quite a bit to change settings (used in lead lines, swells, texture - all worked wonderfully). A preset switch would have made this incredibly more useful, but it’s already an amazing pedal that will be sticking on my board for a long time to come.

I run half my bass signal through a pog with high octave only through the pitch fork and then to a phase and a hot wax. Makes pretty close to guitar sounds and I can get decent power chords through the pitch fork using the latch button so it only activates when I push it. I also like using it like this but instead of a 5th I use it in 1 or 2 octave up and hit the button with the groove to get cool bendy sounds. Paired with an envelope filter on the bass signal it sound cool and interesting. Tracking is my only issue with the pedal. Only reason I use the latch button only.

Picked up this unit because I needed to basically lower the key of my guitar to suit the singer(s) in the band who are getting older (LOL!) and are unable to reach the higher notes, so this came in handy, I have to turn the effect on 100% wet of course so only the pitch shifted guitar sounds will be heard. My only complaint, if it is that, is that I wish that the markings were indicated in half steps, i.e. - or + rather than a "perfect third, major second, etc...". Also, it would be great if there were in between stops for all the half steps in an octave, but if you examine the settings on the unit, there are some key shifts that are not available. You could use an expression pedal to manually (with your foot) adjust the settings to get those in between keys. Overall, it does a pretty good job of pitch shifting with latency that is unremarkable. The latch/unlatch feature is good too if that is what you want. Some of the sounds can get a bit silly at the EXTREME settings, but hey, there are there. The price, when compared to other units, is killer! Build quality is sturdy. I recommend this pedal and am not disappointed with it, other than what I noted, but this is common with most of these pedals.

I use it specifically to tune my guitar down a half step for certain songs at a gig. I use to have to bring a 2nd guitar and do a change and then change back to avoid tuning all 6 strings and then tuning them back. This pedal makes it instant. There is a slight change in tone however. It seems a bit compressed but for live shows, not being recorded, I'm ok with it. The other issue is that there is a slight amount of latency. I noticed it when I first started using the pedal but after a few gigs It became less and less noticeable. But it is there. I've tried other pitch pedals but their latency was far worse than this pedal.
It does all the expected pitch shifting with an expression pedal. It solved a huge problem for me so I'm very happy with the pedal and would recommend it.

After seeing Bill Ruppert's tasty EHX video and various reviews, I endured a considerable wait for it's arrival. With a small footprint for a pedalboard, expression pedal use (if desired) & nice fine tuning features: it's a nifty tool. Using an I-Spot in a chain with a Leslie-type pedal & delay: it did well. It can get a bit metallic sounding unless you use the BLEND knob, but slight characteristics change if you run it in a loop as opposed to running it in front of an amp. But this past week it covered 12-string, baritone, tiple & 8-string bass parts convincingly when recording. It's bypass is for real too, & with a friendly expression pedal it does whammy & Slammi leaps as well.

This pedal is very cool with it's polyphonic harmonization manipulation. The expression pedal is key, it basically makes this a suped up whammy. I bought the moog ep3 along with this pedal to use it much like a whammy. The only reason I gave it a 4 is because it has some trouble replicating really low notes, using this with my bass yielded some unexpected and undesired results. On the plus side, the glissando option works very well, and the ability to do mulitple octaves at the same time is pretty bad ***! Also, the detune fuction in dual mode gives a great chorus sound to the guitar and bass.

Well constructed and reliable. Does not give a very distinctive octave

I got this pedal strictly for downtuning. As far as latency goes, I have not had any issues. However, when I use this pedal to down-tune, it completely changes the tone. It sounds quite shallow and echoey. This is okay for down-tuning if you just want to practice at home, but it probably shouldn't be used anywhere else. When the blend knob is not maxed out (down-tuning), then you can get some cool tones by mixing different steps.

The pros: It's fun to be able to transpose the key you're playing in or jump the octave to add a fuller sound to your guitar.
The cons: When you transpose the key you're playing in, the original key or note bleeds through a tiny bit. For example if you play an E note and shift it up or a fifth to a B note and set the blend so you're suppose to hear the B note only, the E bleeds through a bit. It is barely audible but it can be heard and that is irritating.

The Pitch Fork is more suited to a working guitarist who would like to move up to a different key without a capo or someone advanced enough to really be able to use the two different pitches at once feature. Being a guy who never gets out of the bedroom, I'm still searching for a good reason to use it except to have a lot of fun goofing around with it. Plan on getting an expression pedal to take real advantage of the pedal (The "M Gear EX-P works great and not too expensive). Have fun!

It DOES do a nice, clean, quiet job of pitch transposition. However, I was experiencing a groove-destroying latency of maybe 25 to 40 ms.

That said, if you have a DAW and don't want to use a CPU-eating transpose plugin, it takes a lot less juice to nudge tracks backwards a skoshe to compensate for the latency issue.

But live, I'm afraid I just couldn't get there from here.

I bought it to play downtuned songs. Watched a few youtube videos and read wonderful reviews of it before buying. After getting it I was real disappointed. The latency is crazy and it sounds like there is a chorus pedal on when using it. The farther you turn the tuning down the more artifical sounding chorus you get and my gain seems to disappear. Just ordered a Digitech Drop. Hopefully that works for me.

In the review of this product, it was advertised as no latency. But, if you have to play something fast and rhythmic, you will notice the latency immediately. In particular, my band performs the new "Shut Up and Dance" tune, and during the verse there is a rhythmic pattern that I dang near wasn't able to perform on the fly because the latency was so bad. I had to play ahead of the beat in order for the timing to be correct. Otherwise if playing something slower, not as much an issue.

On another note, the pedal did color my guitar tone. This was a very easy process to hear. Even non-audio-files, could hear the difference. The pedal darkened the tone, but didn't necessarily sound bad either.

Everything else in the pedal works fine though. For my uses though, these aspects were enough for me to sell the pedal off.

I initially ordered a Digitech Drop, however (and I have to give props to Nick for looking out for me) I was advised this pedal existed, was cheaper, and to give it a listen on the interwebs. As a result, I ordered it and was rather disappointed, as what I heard on the web was not translating at home...at all. The main issue I have, is that the pedal produces what I perceive as a very short delay/doubling effect (this is not in dual mode), and an almost metallic sounding chorus-type effect...neither of which are very musical. I should say that I tried the pedal with many different guitars, active and passive pickups, directly between the guitar and amp, in the effects loop, not in the loop, in my pedal board before the gain, after the gain, before the compressor, after the...blah blah, you get the picture. Tried it on the clean and gain channels of a 6505+ and an Engl Invader (okay, the 6505+ doesn't really HAVE a clean channel), and I had the same problem in each position. One positive is that it sounds very cool in dual mode, specifically playing Toccata and Fugue in D Minor. Just sayin'...it does.

I returned the pedal and went for the Digitech Drop, which gets a 5 star review from me.

I purchased the Electro-Harmoix Pitch Fork pedal for the simple reason of being able to drop my over all tuning when practicing with my band, opposed to how my guitars are tuned when writing/recording non-band related music (which has been a "thing" for quite a bit longer). I am relatively new to this band and they have adopted a practice of tuning down to help our singer with his register and not stress his voice over lengthy sets. Okay... no problem. I figured this would be an easy fix so as to not have to constantly muddle with the physical aspect of constant tuning changes and I wasn't quite convinced (despite the large number of positive reviews for the Digitech Drop) that the added cost associated would be worth it. Well... I think my hindsight needs Lasik surgery for I should have just gone with the reviews and recommendations for the Drop.

The Pitch Fork tracked great on the lower registers of the fretboard (regardless of manufacturer/model of guitar). However, when moving to the mid-to-upper frets... say above the 9th fret, tracking became an issue and it was not smooth at all. Quite the opposite actually and very frustrating.

As mentioned, this was purchased to help drop the over all tuning of the instrument, not as a special effect pedal for harmonizing, etc. It needed to flow smoothly across the whole fretboard. Although the ability to add an expression pedal into the chain raised a curious eyebrow, I never got around to testing that feature for I wanted to ensure it would perform the basic operations it was purchased for.

The device lasted on my floor for all of one day before being boxed up and shipped back to Sweetwater where the return is currently being processed.

I rarely give reviews on here, despite being a Sweetwater customer since 2004... not sure why really. That said, this particular experience was enough to pull me out of the review hermit shell and try to save someone else the same heartache. I am going to go with what my gut originally said before ignoring myself, and get the Digitech Drop.

I can't keep this thing working. Sent it in twice. Something is definitely wrong.

This pedal does everything the descriptions say - it changes the pitch really well - with no real loss of tone.You can hear the sound created by the change in sampling rate only if you listen really, really close, with a discerning ear. It's not enough, though to be an issue, IMHO. The problem I experienced with this pedal is the latency between the time that you hit a note or chord and the re-sampling occurs. It's maybe a 1/4 of a second, but it's enough to be noticeable. In the group I play with, we tune down 1/2 step. I'd rather NOT tune down, so I bought this pedal with the plan to use it to make my guitar sound like it was tuned down a 1/2 step. We started a song, and the latency issue reared its ugly head within a couple of seconds. It threw our timing off, so I decided right then and there "This isn't going to work." So, unfortunately, I need to return it. First piece of gear I've ever had to return to Sweetwater. Not their fault - it's just the nature of this particular pedal.